dunnekin
Appearance
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the addition of kin or ken, a pejorative form of house, to some form of danna, an obsolete slang for shit.
Noun
[edit]dunnekin (plural dunnekins)
- (archaic) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
Usage notes
[edit]Originally English cant or dialect but now more common in Scottish, Australian, and New Zealand English.
Synonyms
[edit]- dunny; see also Thesaurus:outhouse
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- "Danna" in James Camden Hotten's Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day (1859).
- "Dunegan" in Francis Grose's A Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811).
- "dunny, n.²", in the Oxford English Dictionary (1972), Oxford: Oxford University Press.